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When you grow up, your heart dies. I know this because Ally Sheedy told me so. She said we all become our parents, there is no avoiding it. Also, if I ever do decide to run away from home, I don't have to live on the streets; I could go to Afghanistan. The day she first told me that (I have since heard this wisdom many, many times), she sounded so right. I was 14, and to be precise, that day was Feb. 15, 1985. In fact, you might even say that 30 years ago this week, for 97 minutes, during that opening-night screening of "The Breakfast Club," everything made sense: If you smoked pot, you would dance maniacally like Emilio Estevez. Judd Nelson was obviously our next...

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When you grow up, your heart dies.
I know this because Ally Sheedy told me so. She said we all become our parents, there is no avoiding it. Also, if I ever do decide to run away from home, I don't have to live on the streets; I could go to...

In the Chicago-shot indie "Warren," filmmaker Alex Beh plays a barista by day, occasional improv performer by night. Put another way: He's a guy in his 20s struggling to get his act together.
That post-grad sinkhole of unfulfilled ambitions...

Ferris Bueller fans and real estate enthusiasts will have the chance to tour the historic estate of the late filmmaker John Hughes Jr. this spring. The Lake Forest Chapter of the Infant Welfare Society of Chicago announced Tuesday that Hughes’...

A multi-media, concert-style show designed to celebrate the movies of the late John Hughes — including such nostalgic titles as “Sixteen Candles,” “The Breakfast Club,” “Weird Science,” “Pretty in Pink,” “Some Kind of Wonderful” and “Ferris Bueller's...

This is how Tim Butler, co-founder, unofficial spokesman and bassist for The Psychedelic Furs, ranks the band's lineups (in rough order):1. The current version: “The best that has ever toured.”2. The first version: “Usually we were not sober, to be...

The wife of late movie director John Hughes has donated $2 million to a Lake Forest community center to build a state-of-the-art theater and host a film series in her husband's name.
The donation to Gorton Community Center in Lake Forest was announced...

Celebrate the holiday season with a FREE screening of the holiday film "Home Alone" at Classic Cinemas' Lake Theatre, located at 1022 Lake Street in downtown Oak Park, on Saturday, December 20, 2014, at 10 AM. The holiday film is sponsored by...

It's been 24 years since the Wet Bandits first were caught — if not red-handed — then torched, wounded, fractured and likely suffering brain damage from blunt-force trauma and arrested at a north suburban home by police wearing patches with the city of...

History is being made at Trinity High School in River Forest where, for the first time, a musical is being staged that was written by students. The original production called “Train” features music and lyrics by the Trinity High School Musical Theatre...

Chicago Blackhawks captain Jonathan Toews has placed his three-bedroom Lakeshore East condominium unit on the market for $2.25 million and is said to be on the hunt for larger home.
Blackhawks fans shouldn't worry about his future with the team. Given...

I've probably said it before, but originality is overrated.
Which is why the most valuable tool in any enterprise's development arsenal just may be a feather duster, to make presentable something it already has and consumers already know.
This is true...

John Hughes' comedy "Planes, Trains and Automobiles" " is the December film in the Critic's Classics Series at the Elk Grove Theatre. The movie will be presented in digital projection and sound at the Elk Grove Theatre, 1050 Arlington...

The Tivoli Theatre will host a special midnight showing of "The Breakfast Club" on Friday, September 26. Admission to the midnight show is $5 per person, and tickets are available at the Tivoli Box Office, 5021 Highland Avenue, Downers Grove, or...

If Wikipedia is correct — and why wouldn't a website that anyone in the world can log onto and change its content be correct? — only .5 percent of school-age children attend boarding schools.
If that's the case, how can there be so many boarding school...

I was in 7th grade when "The Breakfast Club" opened in theaters, and I distinctly remember thinking the movie was totally right about everything. I wasn't in high school yet (and that was surely one of movie's allures; a peek in a world I...

Swinging one leg and the rest of his body out over thousands of Wrigley Field fans while nervous handlers in the broadcast booth gasped, actor Cuba Gooding Jr. howled "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" with abandon before revving up the crowd...

About halfway through writing the script for "The Fitzgerald Family Christmas" (which opens at the Wilmette Theatre next week), Edward Burns says he found himself at a crossroad. "Do I want to make the big, crazy, funny, holly-jolly...

The conversation segued from book to book, ranging from Elizabeth Strout's “Olive Kitteridge” to the works of Philip Roth, over coffee in the Palmer House café. Molly Ringwald had come to Chicago late this spring to support 826CHI, a non-profit...

Jack Duffy was not even born when "The Breakfast Club" arrived in theaters 30 years ago. But the movie is still meaningful to the 17-year-old. "The first time I watched it, I laughed so much it almost made me cry happy tears," Jack...